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  • #1

    Dont Want To Say I told You So, but.....

    Me and Happyshaker stayed overnite at the SLP ramp a few nites back to do some nite fishing by the lights. We had heard they were tearing them up on previous nites but saw no action and we decided to take a snooze in the truck and leave at first light. We hit the old peer and still no luck, and decided on just going to the Guts by Bird Island. As soon as we were pulling up, I saw small schools of bait fish and large tails and fins breaking the water. Anchored and I proceeded to have a great morning of fishing and quickly caught my limit on redfish, but happyshaker was having trouble from not being able to net it before it got off or just breaking the line when a monster hits (all because he dosent use wire rigs and refuses to take any advice on the matter). We were planning on leaving before midday and since he wasnt catching any he wanted to go. I made a deal with him, I told him we have about another 10-15 shrimp in the live well and when they are gone we can go. So as threw our last few shrimps and I noticed one of his new rods laying just of the side of the boat in the water and told him to put in the rod holder. And this wasnt the first time I mentioned that habit of him just laying the rod in front or back of the boat w/ bait in the water, and how I've seen many a rod go into the drink. Well just like other times he says that it will be fine there. He finally lands a good size red and puts it in the boat when out of the corner of his eye he sees his other rod being yanked out of the boat and ask if i can reach it. Its cork end of the rod left it floating about 2' 1/2-3' from the boat, and as I reached out to hook it w/ the pole it literally swam away into the deep never to be seen again. OUCH!!!!!

    Here is a video of me that day after just putting one in the boat.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VVwc5smN5nI&feature=share&list=UUuix7kJEZblYrILuniTxKBg
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    "It was the Law of the Sea, they said. Civilization ends at the waterline. Beyond that, we all enter the food chain, and not always right at the top."
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  • #2
    My believing brother, would you be kind enough to tell me where exactly you took this photo? I would like to take some of my own. Thanks!

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    • #3
      It's the old T shaped pier in Cold Pass.
      From 1970-1997, true heaven on Earth existed on the banks of Bayou Cook. "Hey Dad, Thanks for buying the Camp."

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      • #4
        Thanks for the report ! Nice video . Love the sunrise pic . Too bad about the rod and reel , but he was warned . A wise man considers sage advice , the fool suffers from his folly . We learn from our mistakes , but at a price .
        GEORGE A. BRANARD, COLOR SERGEANT, CO. L, 1 ST TEXAS INFANTRY, HOOD'S TEXAS BRIGADE, C.S.A. : S.C.V.

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        • #5
          Nice going! Too bad about the rod...bet you won't have to tell him again!

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          • #6
            Nice report.
            "Hey Hillary, regarding the Benghazi Attack on 9/11-we'll just blame it on that movie, not my total lack of security. By the way, what's so significant about 9/11 anyway-was that a date my buddy Bill Ayers of the Weather Underground blew up a government building?" asked Obama to Hillary. BEAUTIFY AMERICA, RUN OVER A LIBERAL, THEN BACK UP AND SEE IF HE'S DEAD.

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            • #7
              Yes, Coach is right its the old peer on Cold Pass right by SLP boat ramp.
              "It was the Law of the Sea, they said. Civilization ends at the waterline. Beyond that, we all enter the food chain, and not always right at the top."

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              • #8
                Very cool and nice report. We tried fishing that gut going to Bird Island last Saturday morning but the tide was rushing in and the current through there was brutal so we left due to not being able to fish it efficiently.

                It's great to know it paid off a little later in the day once the sun came out and tide slacked a little if that was when you were there.

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                • #9
                  nice

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                  • #10
                    Originally posted by GregG View Post
                    Very cool and nice report. We tried fishing that gut going to Bird Island last Saturday morning but the tide was rushing in and the current through there was brutal so we left due to not being able to fish it efficiently.

                    It's great to know it paid off a little later in the day once the sun came out and tide slacked a little if that was when you were there.
                    We came in right as the high tide was coming in and the wind was like 4mph from S. The current is always killer thru there that's why I like to fish closer to the island. The topography of the bottom around it seem to slow the water down enough to fish it properly. That's just my observation because when I fish the sandbar across from the south part of the island or of the gut that goes to Mud Cut is to deep and the current just whips thru there. I was on a drop into the gut in about 10'-12' of water w/ egg sinker(no more than 1oz) first and around 12'' wire rig( exact length don't know I make my own rigs and I eyeball them LOL) with big live shrimp. The current picks them up and suspends them and I always seem to get results if the fish are there. I Just spotted the signs that fish where there, bait fish+tails and fins thrashing around. I always preach about a good set of fishing glasses and this is one of the times it pays they have paid for themselves.
                    "It was the Law of the Sea, they said. Civilization ends at the waterline. Beyond that, we all enter the food chain, and not always right at the top."

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                    • #11
                      Great report and pic. Some people never learn. I've told people that, and they just give me an ugly face or reply. I just smile and walk away. They'll learn the hard way. To some people, that's what it takes. To others, well, they know it all. Hard lesson to learn, but they still know it all. Lord Bless.
                      robert
                      And all things, whatsoever you shall ask in prayer, BELIEVING, YE shall receive. Mathew 21:22.

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                      • #12
                        Great read and vid ,sorry about the lost gear. Hard lesson to learn!
                        West Bay Sensai...

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